100 years ago, 1914
NEWS FROM NORTH TURNER — C.G. Gould has nine hens which have laid 15 doz. eggs in January. J.C. Swett, Claude True, Harry True and others are hauling logs from the Thompson place for Merrill’s Mill. A new pier is being built for the little bridge. Mrs. Mason is spending some weeks at her old home in Massachusetts. M.F. Safford is expecting a grand-daughter and her family from Oklahoma. There are seven vacant houses at this place including the toll house. The stage line from North Leeds to North Turner which was discontinued last June is running with the same driver, I.W. Wardwell.
50 years ago, 1964
The charter meeting of “The Cumberland-Androscoggin Flyers” was held at the home of Wayne Sherman of N. River Rd., Auburn recently. The purpose of this organization is to promote the artful sport of racing Homing Pigeons. The club was formed in accordance with the rules of the American Racing Homing Pigeon Union, a nationwide organization. A schedule of races will be held commencing in late August. The contestants for these races, varying in distances up to 300 miles for young birds and up to 700 miles for two year and older birds, will be carefully selected from each member’s loft, marked with an identifying leg band, crated, and shipped to a predetermined release location.
25 years ago, 1989
Pettengill Park and the Union Street Gully would be home to a series of walking trails, new recreation fields and cross-country skiing trails if funding is available to turn a proposed plan into reality, officials said Tuesday. At a public hearing on the park’s future, Community Development Coordinator Reine Mynahan and landscape architect John Mitchell described the features proposed to improve use of the park and provide better access to the areas. Mitchell, of Mitchell and Associates in Portland, said walkers would be able to start at the Union Street entrance to the system and continue through the parks on a series of paved paths, negotiating steep embankments by a series of ramps and stairs. Chestnut Street would be made into a one-way street for northbound traffic to prevent auto-pedestrian accidents, and cars would no longer be able to enter Pettengill Park by Winter Street.
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